Patient's question:
I have always been very healthy, but recently I often have some stomach and intestinal pain. It hurts a bit every time I eat, and sometimes it's so painful that I can't bear it. So I went to the hospital, and the diagnosis was hiatal hernia. I didn't go to school for very long. Please tell me what hiatal hernia means and if it's serious.Doctor's answer:
Hiatal hernia is actually not uncommon in clinical diagnosis; it is one of the more common types of intra-abdominal hernias. Its main cause of recurrence is when intra-abdominal pressure decreases, the abdominal pressure passes through the esophageal hiatal orifice, pushing abdominal organs into the thoracic cavity. The primary organ being pushed is the stomach. Hiatal hernia must be actively treated surgically; otherwise, it will lead to a series of clinical diagnostic manifestations such as recurrent cycles and absorption disorders.